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MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER BY: SVEN HEDIN
MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER BY: SVEN HEDIN
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FEATURES: MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER BY: SVEN HEDIN
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A) CONDITION BOOK: GOOD - HARD BOUND
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: ABSENT
C) "POPULAR EDITION" [FIRST EDITION THUS] - GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING 1925
D) NOTE: ASTOUNDING ADVENTURES OF AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXPLORER FROM SWEDEN. CHRONICLED HERE ARE THE THREE EXPEDITIONS HE LED IN CENTRAL ASIA OVER A FOURTEEN YEAR PERIOD UPON WHICH HIS REPUTATION IS BASED. LATER EXPEDITIONS INVOLVE TRAVELS TO MONGOLIA AND CHINA. CONTROVERSIALLY, HEDIN WAS A SUPPORTER OF GERMANY WHEN THIS WAS VIEWED WITH EXTREME SUSPICION BY HIS COUNTRYMEN AND THE WIDER EUROPEAN POPULOUS. A FASCINATING LIFE.
AN ASSOCIATION NOTE: THE BOOKPLATE BEARS OF OWEN CONNER STRUAN ROBERTSON, WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO TRANSIT THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE BOTH ON THE SURFACE AND IN A SUBMARINE. ON TWO OCCASIONS IN 1943 AND 1945, ROBERTSON PREVENTED A MAJOR DISASTER BY SUCCESSFULLY DEALING WITH FIRE IN A MUNITION SHIP AND LATER AT A STORAGE DEPOT. HEAVY BOOK MAY REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE. 544 PAGES.
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